HOLISTIC THERAPEUTIC APPROACH

EMDR or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is a therapeutic approach that connects to distressing life events in order to lessen emotional pain and reevaluate formative moments.  This reevaluation can shift long held identities allowing for new internal beliefs to emerge.  This approach is based on the AIP Model that theorizes many of our behavioral and mental health imbalances in the present (anxiety, depression, addictions, overwhelm) are due to maladaptive beliefs stored in the brain and body.  With EMDR a person, over time, can reduce behavioral and emotional issues by addressing past distress.  EMDR is an evidence based practice and one of the leading treatment modalities for trauma.  

IFS or Internal Family Systems is a therapeutic approach that provides a language and construct for understanding the complex internal landscape.  Each person is made up of many complex ‘parts’.  Each part of us is motivated to protect or regulate the system (our brain and body).  In this approach there is an exploration of self and the use of techniques to relate to self in a more understanding and helpful way. The relationship we have with ourselves informs all others.  

Somatic Tracking is the process of building practical strategies to feel difficult emotions.  This approach works to build skills in ‘feeling our feelings’ by bringing mental attention to the body.  This practice provides regulation strategies and long term methods to feel and integrate emotional data from daily life or past events.  It is a primary life skill in sustaining emotional balance.